Machine for pouncing hat-brims.



a PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905.

F. B. HUSK.

MACHINE.FOR POUNGING HAT BRIMS.

' APPLICATION FILED APR.27.1905.

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F. HUSK. MACHINE FOR POUNGING HAT BRIMS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.27. 1905.

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FRANK B. HUSK, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HORLOCK AND HUSK, OF DANBURY. CONNECTICUT, A COPARTNERSHIP.

MACHINE FOR POUNCING HAT-BRIIVIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26. 1905.

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK B. HUsK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danbury, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Machine for Pouncing HatBrims, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a light, simple, durable, and inexpensive machine for pouncing both sides of the brims of hats, more especially of felt hats.

With these ends in view I have devised the novel hat pouncing machine which I will now describe, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and using reference characters to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine complete Fig. 2, an elevation of the feeding mechanism detached Fig 3, a side elevation of the machine with the feeding mech-- anism removed; and Fig. 4 is an elevation as seen from the right in Fig. 3, showing the pad-carriers at the extreme of their outward movement.

10 denotes the base-plate of the'machine, which may rest upon a suitable standard or on a bench, as preferred. Power is applied to drive the machine by means of a belt (not shown) passing over a belt-pulley 11 on a shaft 14, which is journaled in a bracket 13, rigidly secured to the base plate and extending outward and upward therefrom, and in a bearing 15 on a standard 16, also secured to the base-plate.

17 denotes a clutch the operation of which is to connect and disconnect the shaft and the belt-pulley in use. This clutch is operated by means of a hand-lever 18, the operative end of which lies in position to be readily grasped by the operator in use.

At the inner end of the shaft is a gearwheel 19 and a miter-pinion 20, rigidly secured together. The feeding mechanism, which is driven from the miterpinion, comprises the usual conical feed-rollers 21 and 22, carried by oblique shafts 23 and 24, journaled in boxes secured to a standard 25, itself rigidly secured to and extending upward from the base-plate. The boxes in which one of these shafts, in the present instance shaft 24, is journaled are fixed to the standard. The inner end of this shaft is provided with a miter gear-wheel 26, which meshes with the miter-pinion on the main shaft. 24 are provided with corresponding miter gear-wheels 27, engaging each other, by-which power is transmitted from one to the other. The box 28, inwhich the inner end of shaft 23 is j ournaled, is pivoted to standard 25, so so as to oscillate thereon in the vertical plane. The box 29, in which the outer end of this shaft is journaled, is carried by a pin 30, which slides in an arc-shaped slot 31 in the standard, a spring 32 acting to force box 29 downward and press the feed-roller carried thereby toward the companion feed-roller.

33 and 34 denote, respectively, the upper and lower pad-carriers, each of which is provided with a slot 35 at right angles to its path of movement and carries a pad 36, to which sheets of sandpaper (not shown) are secured in use. The lower pad-carrier 34 is pivoted to a vertical plate 37, as at 38. Plate 37 may be cast integral with or rigidly secured to a standard 41, which is itself rigidly secured to the base-plate. The upper pad-carrier 33 is pivoted ona pin 39, extending from a slide 40, which moves in vertical ways 42 in plate 37 43 denotes shafts j ournaled in bearings 44 in standard 41. At the inner ends of these shafts are pinions 45, which mesh with gearwheel 19 on the main shaft, and at their outer ends are disks 46, which lie in countersunk recesses 47 in the outerface of plate 37. Each of these disks is provided with a pin 48, which extends eccentrically from the outer face thereof. 49 denotes blocks pivoted on these pins and adapted to slide in slots 35 in the pad-carriers. It will thus be seen that when the machine is in use rotation of shafts 43 will cause the blocks to reciprocate in the slots in the pad-carriers and will cause the pad-carriers themselves to reciprocate in opposite directions, owing to the fact that the blocks and pins are oppositely adjusted relative to the pad-carriers, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. Starting with the pad-carriers in the position shown in Fig. 4 each rotation of the disks will cause the pad-carriers to swing to the extreme of their movement in opposite directions and to instantly return to the sliding position. The pad-carriers remain stationary but an instant at each extreme of their movement, the return movement commencin at once, so that the least possible time is 0st, and the pouncing of both sides of the hat-brim is effected very quickly, owing Shafts 23 and to the rapid movement and quick return of the pad-carriers. An adjustable pressure is maintained upon the upper pad-carrier by means of a weight 50, which slides on an arm 51,pivoted to a bracket 52, extending upward from standard 41. The outer end of arm 51 lies in a notch 53 in the top of slide 40, which prevents any lateral movement of the arm and weight. The hats while being acted upon are held invertedthat is, with the crowns downwardand are retained in position while the brims are between the pouncing-pads by means of a pin 54, which passes into the crowns from above. This pin is adjustably secured in a bracket 55,which is rigidly secured to and depends from the pin 39, on which upper pad-carrier 33 is pivoted.

The upper pad-carrier and upper feedroller may be lifted simultaneously to permit the insertion or removal of a hat by means of a hand-lever 56,pivoted to a bracket 57 on the base-plate. This lever carriesa roller 64, which engages the under side of a curved lever 58, pivoted to a bracket 59 on the baseplate.

6O denotes a link one end of which is pivoted to the free end of lever 58 and the other to an arm 61, which is rigidly secured to slide 40.

62 denotes a lever one end of which is pivoted to the standard 25, which carries the feeding mechanism and which extends un der upper feed-roller shaft 23, and the other end of which is pivoted to link 60, as at 63,

Lever 58 is so shaped that in the normal or operative position of the parts roller 64 on hand-lever 56 bears against a downwardly extending incline. When this hand-lever is swung from the position shown in Fig. 3 toward the right, the free end of lever 58 will be raised, and with it the link, arm 61, and lever 62, which will carry with them both the upper pad-carrier and the upper feed-roller and will permit the operator to insert or remove a hat.

The operation of the machine as a whole will be readily understood from the description already given. In brief, the operator by means of hand-lever 56 raises the upper pad-carrier and upper feed-roller, places the brim of a hat to be pounced upon the lower feed-roller and the lower pad-carrier, then lowers the upper feed-roller and upper padcarrier to place, pin 54 passing within the crown of the hat, which is held downward, and then the operator by means of handlever 18 operates the clutch to connect the shaft with the belt-pulley. The feed-rollers at once commence to carry the brim of the hat forward, both sides of which are subjected to the action of pouncing-pads faced with sandpaper upon the pad-carriers. The hat while being pounced is retained in position so that it cannot pass out from between the pouncing-pads by means of pin 54. When the machine is in use, the operator is simply required to stop and start it and to insert the hats and remove themwhenpounced, the feeding forward of the hat-brim and the pouncing action being wholly automatic.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a machine of the character described the combination with pad-carriers having slots at right angles to their path of movement, of blocks in said slots and rotating disks having pins extending from their faces on which the blocks are pivoted, whereby reciprocatory movement in opposite directions is imparted to the pad-carriers.

2. In a machine of the character described the combination with a lower pad-carrier pivoted to a fixed portion of the machine, an upper pad-carrier and a vertical slide to which the upper pad-carrier is pivoted, of means for reciprocating said pad-carriers in opposite directions and means for raising the slide to lift the pad-carrier carried thereby out of operative position.

3. In a machine of the character described the combination with a slotted lower padcarrier pivoted to a fixed portion of the machine a slotted upper pad-carrier and a vertical slide to which the upper pad-carrier is pivoted, of blocks adapted to reciprocate in the slots, disks having pins extending from their faces on which the blocks are pivoted, and means for rotating said disks to impart reciprocatory movement in opposite directions to the pad-carriers.

4. In a machine of the character described the combination with a slotted lower padcarrier pivoted to a fixed portion of the machine a slotted upper pad-carrier and a vertical slide to which the upper pad-carrier is pivoted, of blocks adapted to reciprocate in the slots, disks having pins extending from their faces on which the blocks are pivoted, means for rotating said disks and means for raising the slide and upper pad-carrier out of operative position.

5. In a machine of the character described the combination with a slotted lower padcarrier pivoted to a fixed portion of the machine a slotted upper pad-carrier and a vertical slide to which the upper pad-carrier is pivoted, of blocks adapted to reciprocate in the slots, rotating disks having pins extending from their faces on which the blocks are pivoted, a pivoted arm engaging the top of the slide and a weight on said arm whereby the upper pad-carrier is retained in operative position in use.

6. In a machine of the character described the combination with a slotted pad-carrier pivoted to a fixed portion of the machine, a vertical slide, a corresponding slotted padcarrier pivoted to said slide, a bracket secured to said slide and a pin depending therefrom and ada ted to enter the crown of a hat to retain the rim in position to be operated upon, of blocks adapted to reciprocate in the slots and rotating disks having pins extending from their faces on which the blocks are pivoted.

7. In a machine of the character described the combination with oppositely-reciprocating pad-carriers and a vertical slide to which one of said pad-carriers is pivoted, of an arm extending from said slide, a link pivoted to said arm, a curved lever to which said link is pivoted and a hand lever engaging said curved lever by which the slide may be lifted to move the pad-carrier pivoted thereto out of operative position.

8. In a machine of the character described the combination with oppositely-reciprocating pad-carriers, a vertical slide to which one of said pad-carriers is pivoted, and feed-rollers one of which is vertically movable, of an arm extending from the slide, a link'pivoted to said arm, a lever ivoted to said link and engaging the shaft 0 the movable feed-roller a curved lever to which the link is pivoted and a hand-lever engaging the curved lever by which the slide, upper pad-carrier and upper feed-roller may be raised.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK B. HUSK. Witnesses:

EBER A. HODGE, MAUDE L. SCALES. 

